Medicare Remit Easy Print (MREP) Software Available
Medicare Remit Easy Print (MREP) software is available from Medicare carrier or DMERC's website! In an effort to advance toward an electronic environment, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed software called Medicare Remit Easy Print that enables physicians, providers, suppliers, and qualified non-physician practitioners that bill Medicare Carriers and DMERCs, to view and print Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)-compliant 835s from their own computer. Remittance advices printed from the MREP software mirror the current Standard Paper Remittance Advice (SPR) format. Before using the MREP software, physicians and suppliers must have access to HIPAA 835 files. For your reference, a Special Edition Medlearn Matters article (SE0611) is available at:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedlearnMattersArticles/downloads/SE0611.pdf. (pdf)
Physicians and suppliers can save time and money with MREP! Benefits for physicians and suppliers include the ability to:
- View, search, and print remittance information
- Print and export reports of Denied, Adjusted and Deductible Service Lines
- Print remittance information for individual or multiple selected claims, which allows physicians/suppliers to forward only those claims that are needed by other payers for secondary/tertiary payment. This eliminates the need for physicians and suppliers darkening individually identifiable data on the SPR, as they may do today, that does not pertain to the claim for which they are requesting payment.
- Receive updates to Claim Adjustment Reason Codes and Remittance Advice Remark Codes three times a year. Physicians and suppliers can sign up on their Carrier or DMERC website to be notified of these updates.
- Eliminates physical filing and storage space needs.
Providers using MREP have told CMS:
"I am very impressed with the free easy print software. It works great - and I am finding it is a great timesaver for billing secondaries to denial management. Thank you."
"We love our Easy Print Software and so do our other 17 providers that this business office supports."
"With the latest update we like the claim detail printing when we print the EOB."
MREP software information (including how to obtain a free copy) is available on Medicare contractor websites. To learn more about the new MREP software and how to receive the HIPAA 835, physicians and suppliers should contact their Medicare carrier or DMERC. Medicare Part B Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Helpline phone numbers are available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ElectronicBillingEDITrans/ on the CMS website.
Page Last Updated: Tuesday, 26-Feb-2008 14:16:26 CST
